“I’m proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It’s just another part of me.”

Bowie’s been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the ‘Diamond Dogs’ album, and the cover alone just grabbed my attention. I think I was probably around 12.

There’s always gonna be people that are scared of it. But at the end of the day you give those bullies, those people, that are so ignorant, if you give them the power to affect you, you’re letting them win

The only lifestyle I’m promoting is the lifestyle of love and friendship. The lifestyle of music, and joy, and fashion.

There’s a certain level of pageantry with ‘Idol,’ and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don’t think it’s a better way or the way, but it’s my way.

The album feels like a new era for me — emotionally, lyrically, sonically. It feels fresh, it feels new. It’s still me.

I’m proud of my sexuality.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock ‘n’ roll spirit, swagger to the game.

My dad is a Deadhead, my mom’s a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you’re doing something right.

I like ‘Rocky Horror.’

The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

It gets better. It seems hard, you know, I think being different is always gonna be a tough climb.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.

Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.